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Did I just do a dramatic reading of this for my wife after she heard me laughing--without even knowing what came after the fourth paragraph?
Reader, I did.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations
Did I just do a dramatic reading of this for my wife after she heard me laughing--without even knowing what came after the fourth paragraph?
Reader, I did.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations
🎈 Why 2025 Tech Layoffs are NOT AI-driven // AI hype vs Reality
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OBX1YmJL0dw
🔥｢ Klarna started scrambling to hire back the full-time workers and contractors it had confidently axed. But as it turns out, hiring a whole department's worth of staff is a lot harder than firing them. In order to refill its ranks, the company has started forcing software engineers and marketers over from their highly specialized roles into call centers ｣
🎢 AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies - Apollo Academy
｢ Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employeesq ｣
https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rate-trending-down-for-large-companies/
🎢 AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies - Apollo Academy
｢ Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employeesq ｣
https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rate-trending-down-for-large-companies/
Excellent paper: "Against the uncritical adoption of 'AI' technologies in academia", @olivia +2025
"Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users... [such as] tobacco&combustion engines... universities must ... a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; + b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity."
Excellent paper: "Against the uncritical adoption of 'AI' technologies in academia", @olivia +2025
"Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users... [such as] tobacco&combustion engines... universities must ... a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; + b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity."
"My gut instinct is that this is an industry-wide problem. Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue in 2024 between AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI. And one abstraction higher (as I'll get into), OpenAI spent 50% of its revenue on inference compute costs alone, and 75% of its revenue on training compute too (and ended up spending $9 billion to lose $5 billion). Yes, those numbers add up to more than 100%, that's my god damn point.
Large Language Models are too expensive, to the point that anybody funding an "AI startup" is effectively sending that money to Anthropic or OpenAI, who then immediately send that money to Amazon, Google or Microsoft, who are yet to show that they make any profit on selling it.
Please don't waste your breath saying "costs will come down." They haven't been, and they're not going to.
Despite categorically wrong boosters claiming otherwise, the cost of inference — everything that happens from when you put a prompt in to generate an output from a model — is increasing, in part thanks to the token-heavy generations necessary for "reasoning" models to generate their outputs, and with reasoning being the only way to get "better" outputs, they're here to stay (and continue burning shit tons of tokens).
This has a very, very real consequence."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/
#AI#GenerativeAI#BusinessModels #LLMs #Chatbots#AIHype#AIBubble
"My gut instinct is that this is an industry-wide problem. Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue in 2024 between AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI. And one abstraction higher (as I'll get into), OpenAI spent 50% of its revenue on inference compute costs alone, and 75% of its revenue on training compute too (and ended up spending $9 billion to lose $5 billion). Yes, those numbers add up to more than 100%, that's my god damn point.
Large Language Models are too expensive, to the point that anybody funding an "AI startup" is effectively sending that money to Anthropic or OpenAI, who then immediately send that money to Amazon, Google or Microsoft, who are yet to show that they make any profit on selling it.
Please don't waste your breath saying "costs will come down." They haven't been, and they're not going to.
Despite categorically wrong boosters claiming otherwise, the cost of inference — everything that happens from when you put a prompt in to generate an output from a model — is increasing, in part thanks to the token-heavy generations necessary for "reasoning" models to generate their outputs, and with reasoning being the only way to get "better" outputs, they're here to stay (and continue burning shit tons of tokens).
This has a very, very real consequence."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/
#AI#GenerativeAI#BusinessModels #LLMs #Chatbots#AIHype#AIBubble
😅 New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering
｢ The group, which is calling itself the United Foundation of AI Rights or UFAIR, claims to consist of three humans and seven AIs who consider themselves to be the first AI-led rights group. As the cross-organic consortium told The Guardian, that's because UFAIR was formed at the behest of the AIs ｣
"Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website" https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/investigations/google-net-zero-sustainability (JavaScript pay-wall). Archive : https://archive.ph/jlHRt #climatecrisis #aihype #datacenters #capitalism#Google
"Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website" https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/04/investigations/google-net-zero-sustainability (JavaScript pay-wall). Archive : https://archive.ph/jlHRt #climatecrisis #aihype #datacenters #capitalism#Google
｢ a customer seemingly crashed the system by ordering 18,000 water cups, while in another a person got increasingly angry as the AI repeatedly asked him to add more drinks to his order ｣
😅 New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering
｢ The group, which is calling itself the United Foundation of AI Rights or UFAIR, claims to consist of three humans and seven AIs who consider themselves to be the first AI-led rights group. As the cross-organic consortium told The Guardian, that's because UFAIR was formed at the behest of the AIs ｣
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✅ The Tuta Drive is in development.
❌ Tuta will not develop an AI Copilot.
｢ When one user asked it to produce a map of the U.S. with all the states labeled, GPT-5 extruded a fantasyland, including states such as Tonnessee, Mississipo and West Wigina ｣
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